Historical50c1ety Montgomery County Pennsylvania Jvorr/Stowm
BULLETIN HISTORICAL50C1ETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA JVORR/STOWM 22MPRY PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY AT ITS ROOMS 18 EAST FENN STREET NORRISTOWN.PA- OCTOBER, 1944 VOLUME IV NUMBER 3 PRICE 50 CENTS Historical Society of Montsomery County OFFICERS Kieke Bryan, Esq., President S. Cameron Corson, First Vice-President Charles Harper Smith, Second Vice-President George K. Brecht, Esq., Third Vice-President Nancy C. Cresson, Recording Secretary Helen E. Richards, Corresponding Secretary Annie B. Molony, Financial Secretary Lyman a. Kratz, Treasurer Katharine Preston, Acting Librarian TRUSTEES Kirke Bryan, Esq. Mrs. H. H. Franoine H. H. Gansee Nancy P. Highley Foster C. Hillegass Mrs. a. Conrad Jones David Todd Jones Hon. Harold G. Knight Lyman A. Kratz Douglas Macfarlan, M.D. Katharine Preston Charles Harper Smith Franklin A. Stickler ^ Mrs. Franklin B. Wildman, Jr. Norris D. Wright Ardmore Station (from "Slimmer Excursion Routes," Pennsylvania Railroad, 1877) THE BULLETIN of the Historical Society of Montgomery County Published Semi-Anrmally—October and April Volume IV October, 1944 Number 3 CONTENTS The Meaning of Valley Forge . Harry Ehnerson Wildes 159 Early Recollections of Ardmore (continued) Josiah S. Pearce 169 Reports 248 Publication Committee Mrs. Andrew Y. Drysdale Hannah Gerhard Anita L. Eystbr Charles Harper Smith Charles R. Barker, Chairman 157 The Meaning of Valley Forge By Harry Emerson Wildes* I Valley Forge marked the turning point of the Revolution. The men who came to its wind-swept, snow-clad acres in stormy December, 1777, were battered, hungry, sick and in distress. Abandoned, as they thought, by the .civilians of the Continental Congress, deserted, all too often, by the politicians of their states, the ragged, barefoot, volunteers huddled help lessly about their smoky, green-wood, fires.
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